01-30-2003, 01:45 PM | #561 |
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i'm pretty much a freak because i usually read many books simultaneously. right now:
kurt vonnegut: slapstick and hocus pocus howard zinn: the zinn reader fast food nation by i forget who crashing the party by ralph nader and i've been working ulysses by james joyce for the past ten years i need to learn to focus on just ONE thing at a time. it would make me much more sane. |
01-30-2003, 02:17 PM | #562 |
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HoME 7, and Wizard of Earthsea.
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01-30-2003, 03:50 PM | #563 |
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I'm reading the Wizard of Earthsea too. And the Wings of a Dove. Both very interesting
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. Last edited by sun-star : 01-30-2003 at 03:51 PM. |
01-30-2003, 06:52 PM | #564 |
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i was reading To The Far Blue Mountains but i just stopped reading it. i guess i lost interest after i read the end.
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01-30-2003, 10:53 PM | #565 |
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I read George Orwell's Animal Farm in about two hours yesterday. Very interesting. I'm now reading Isaac Asimov's Fantasy Collection (the ones about the little demon thing, Azazel) and a book about ME, Author of the Century.
I have ordered Dune from the library, so I will be reading it soon!
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01-30-2003, 11:32 PM | #566 |
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The History of Nursery Rhymes
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01-30-2003, 11:39 PM | #567 |
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I have finished The haunting of Hill house and recomend it to all.
I got bored of Tamsin though . I am now reading Dogland : which is about the 1950's and a familly of white southerners hiering an African American to work in Dogland in Florida.
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01-31-2003, 07:35 AM | #568 |
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The Amish Phone Book - Very light reading this one.
Adolf Hitler, My Part in His Downfall - Spike Milligan (v.funny) The Arts Good Study Guide - Tedius, boring but necessary. Hidden Lives was good, if you like autobiographies that are written by people who aren't famous movie stars |
02-03-2003, 10:14 PM | #569 |
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the hobbit
the house on mango street (4 english) thats it for now... trying to keep unread books in my bookshelf for at least a week
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02-05-2003, 04:48 PM | #570 |
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return of the king
and i am the cheese (for english)
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02-07-2003, 12:30 AM | #571 |
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Right now I'm reading Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War'. Very fascinating book.
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02-07-2003, 12:31 AM | #572 |
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Khamul, how is the translation, as far as readability?
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02-07-2003, 06:20 PM | #573 |
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It's not hard to read. It's Samuel B. Griffith's translation with comments under some of the points. At some points, he'll leave a footnote and say, "[This translator] thought that this verse meant [whatever], but it is literally translated as [whatever]." It's actually pretty easy to read and understand.
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02-08-2003, 12:21 AM | #574 |
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What I'm reading currently
Hmm, I usually have a few books going at once, but with school and everything it's kind of hard to find a lot of time to just kick back and read. The book is called The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand. It's about a group of people in the late 1890's who shared a common idea, and developed the concept of pragmatism (something I believe in for sure). The discussion is part narrative, part history, part drama. It reads almost like Simon Singh (Fermat's Enigma, The Code Book), but with a bit more of a factual-history feel to it. Has anyone else read this book? It was a pretty big seller if I can recall right.
And as always, I have a copy of the Silmarillion close at hand and I'm always poking through one computer book, currently The Missing Manual for Dreamweaver MX. Whee
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02-08-2003, 12:47 AM | #575 |
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What I'm reading currently
Hmm, I usually have a few books going at once, but with school and everything it's kind of hard to find a lot of time to just kick back and read. The book is called The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand. It's about a group of people in the late 1890's who shared a common idea, and developed the concept of pragmatism (something I believe in for sure). The discussion is part narrative, part history, part drama. It reads almost like Simon Singh (Fermat's Enigma, The Code Book), but with a bit more of a factual-history feel to it. Has anyone else read this book? It was a pretty big seller if I can recall right.
And as always, I have a copy of the Silmarillion close at hand and I'm always poking through one computer book, currently The Missing Manual for Dreamweaver MX. Whee
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02-08-2003, 01:08 AM | #576 |
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About to start on Red Mars...
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02-09-2003, 01:27 AM | #577 |
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I have just started Beowulf, and so far, I love it.
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02-09-2003, 01:34 AM | #578 |
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I just go Beowulf from the library today! I kept reading about it in regard to Tolkien and his writings, so I thought I'd give it a go.
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02-09-2003, 02:15 AM | #579 |
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So far I have finished reading "The Agony and the Ecstasy", "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". All very good books. I think I'm getting a bit more ::quotefingers::worldly::/endquotefingers:: because I understood much of the satire in the last book. Very funny.
Currently reading AP Psych book and the Silmarillion.
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02-09-2003, 02:45 AM | #580 |
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Cassiopeia, Beowulf is just plain incredible. And it is indispensible in an understanding of Tolkien. The Rohirrim especially have a lot of Beowulf in them: the sentry who does all the "who goes there?" to Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, and Gandalf at Edoras is taken wholesale from Beowulf and his men's approach to Heorot. And Bilbo taking a cup from Smaug is based on a bit of Beowulf! But LOTR as a whole owes much to Beowulf's sensibility: that sense of an age ending, things going where fate has decided, that kind of sadness of a something that once was great doomed to pass with the wind, but first here's some awesome fights with two ogres and a dragon!
The what-I'm reading update: just finished Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers, which was so very good. Now juggling Philip J. Caputo's A Rumor of War, a memoir of one man's experience in the Vietnam War, Mapping Human History, a book about what our species' DNA can tell us about the species' history as a whole and why bigotry is therefore stupid, and the graphic novels Batman: Dark Victory and House of Java, a black-and-white independent. |
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